On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > I think I found the bug. If a thread calls
> > > pthread_cond_timedwait(), and the computed wakeup time is less than
> > > 1 microsecond into the future, then the thread can sleep
> > > indefinitely. I'm testing a fix at the moment..
> Since installing these patches, I haven't had any failures -- thanks.

Nor have I.  However, I also moved to a laptop with more memory, which
greatly reduced the amount of swapping.

--apb (Alan Barrett)